Michael J. Fox Analysis

The disease that Dale Maxin has is known as Parkinson Disease. This disease has affected Dale 's life in a very negative way. It has caused him much grief. Medication helped him to cope with Parkinson for a period of time, however; even the medication has reached a point where it n longer helps. His wife is who he has to depend on with help for everyday things. Because of Parkinson they cannot even go out and enjoy a simple dinner at a restaurant. Activities that they once did before he was diagnosed they no longer do. Parkinson disease has taken everything Dale has loved in life and forever changed it.

In Jason Zinser’s article, “The Good, the Bad, and The Daily Show,” he argues that Americans have dissociated from the conventional mainstream of news into a new program that is often filled with “fake” news, such as the The Daily Show. Zinser questions the ethics and validity of “fake” news sources, since these new programs have gained a considerable amount of popularity that can cause a detrimental effect into peoples’ mentality. Zinser acknowledges that fake news is a method to obtain information from a comical and satirical news source, however Zinser exhorts that, “The question isn’t whether Jon Stewart or the show’s producers and writers are morally corrupt people, but whether or not fake news is, on the whole, beneficial or damaging

After his diagnosis, he sinks into a deep low of uncertainty. Michael J Fox also found strength, purpose, and a successful life from advocacy (Fox, 2002). After reading the narrative, interviewing a person, and researching the subject, two main themes emerged. The first relates largely to finding a sense of purpose. Giving purpose to the diagnosis along with their life gives the person a reason to wake up and keep living. In addition, the theme of engaging in advocacy became apparent through both narratives. The emergence of similar themes from two stories of drastically different people, struggling with different diagnoses represents the true power of these

The author, Matthew Desmond visited Milwaukee to live with under privileged families to see how the eviction process takes place in America. Informing society and telling a first had experience that involved, evidence, research, and passion. With this in mind, he then wants to educate the public on how society can change and make poverty less of an issue in America today.

She points out facts about her own insurance where she has “a condition- say high blood pressure or diabetes- serious enough to be entered into your medical record.” (par. 7) where she lost her job and her health insurance. She tried to get new insurance “but no one want[ed] [her] because [she] now [has] a ‘pre-existing condition,’” (par. 7). She now has to “enter the hospital as a ‘self-pay’ patient, [and] incur bills four times higher than an insured patient would,” (par. 7). This supports the idea that the health care system is commercialized and just out for financial gain, making insurance so hard to get, making uninsured people pay more.

The idea that those with more money deserve access to a higher standard of healthcare violates the very basic principles of democracy on which the United States was founded. Equal opportunities are guaranteed by the Constitution, and there is no reason healthcare should be excluded from this rule.

The graphic essay ,”Show and Tell” by Scott McCloud was written to prove that Graphic novels can be a useful tool to communication and that we see this form of communication through many mediums. To convey this message, McCloud uses classification and division to categorize all of his knowledge into concise and easy- to- understand categories for the reader.This theme of the usefulness of graphic novels is also seen in other works of McCloud, including his TED talk, describing his life, and his own official website, scottmccloud.com.McCloud’s views of graphic novels are used to show the reader and others that they are in fact a good source of knowledge;he believes that graphic novels can academically benefit students

Considered the “Father of Western Philosophy”, the great Aristotle is quoted as saying “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” This is something that, a young intelligent man in the early 1990’s took to heart, as he set out on a great journey to know himself. Chris McCandless, this young man, however took a different path than most in terms of discovering himself by attempting to abandon society and live off the land in rural Alaska. Chris’s journey throughout his brief adulthood, should be celebrated due to his pursuit of self discovery, and finding the source of true happiness. However we must acknowledge his decision to go into the unforgiving wilderness ill-prepared and the way he rejected true companionship in his travels pre-Alaskan adventure should not be ignored.

Scott McCloud begins his graphic essay, Show and Tell, with a series of sixteen panels of a young boy demonstrating how to turn a toy robot into an airplane. By doing so, McCloud is informing the reader of just how everyone starts out as a child. For example, as McCloud points out, at a day like “Show and Tell”, students would present with them their favorite animal or whatever was needed for that day to present to the class. This is just like using words and images interchangeably which is what everyone was taught to do as a kid. However, this is all considered normal so long as the child grows out of this habit as they approach pre-adulthood. In his graphic essay, McCloud outlines the stereotypes that people associate with comics.

The truth is the medical community holds the patient hostage for profits off of the remedies procured from people at no cost to them. Scientist play the game of supply and demand with a vengeance. When children are ill, mothers are dying there is no dollar amount that can be equated with the preservation of life. Scientist, researchers and pharmaceutical companies know this and they attach exuberant prices to the remedies, treatments and cures. When the science community found a way to control HIV/ AIDS, very few people were able to get treatment because it was very expensive. “1,201,100 persons aged 13 years and older are living with HIV infection” (AVERTing HIV & AIDS, 2014), but a number of people weren’t able to get help early on, “ 1.5 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses worldwide in 2013”(World Health Organization, 2014) . Stars like Magic Johnson are able to go on and live a healthy lifestyle because he could afford to spend thousands of dollars on medications. Some of the unintended consequences of a profit- driven health care system include the fact that people are dying. If people can’t pay for treatment, they may not receive treatment at all, or the quality of treatment will not be the same as it is for someone with insurance. This is demonstrated in “The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks,” since Henrietta was a poor, black woman, they

Christopher McCandless and Adam Shepard were both two young men who graduated from college. Right after college McCandless left his family and left everything behind to show that one does not need anyone but oneself. McCandless’s goal was too show everyone that he was self reliant. On the other hand, Shepherd was a young college graduate that decides to embark on a year long project trying to prove that the American dream is still achievable. Shepard’s goal was to show everyone that a person can start with only the bare-minimum and still succeed because the American dream is achievable. Adam Shepard served a greater purpose than Chris McCandless because Shepard planned out how he was going to achieve his

Within multimodal texts authors use a variety of language and visual features in order to create meaning and convey a sophisticated story. In Wes Anderson 's movie 'Fantastic Mr Fox ' these include visual techniques such as symbolism, camera movement, imagery, personification and colour hues that enable the creator to convey a sophisticated story through its heightened meaning and effect on the audience. In Roald Dahl 's book these include literary techniques such as imagery, hyperbole and metaphors that enables the author to use these interrelated techniques in both word and picture form to tell a story.

The general argument made by Marc Tucker in his piece is higher students in social classes who have higher expectations strive more which then results to get a better education and various opportunities. More specifically, he argues that the regular diplomas should be abolished and taken out from school systems. Furthermore, Marc is implying that regular diplomas limit the students achievements and expectations, they don’t work as hard. In the passage, “ OECD data show that social class is a better predictor of educational achievement in the United States than in all but a handful of countries surveyed by the OECD. If there is an aristocracy, it is here in the United States, where well-to-do, well-educated parents predict well-educated children…” This provides

In the Nonfiction novel written by Mitch Albom, “Tuesdays With Morrie” tells of this author’s experiences with Mitch’s old professor, Morrie. Mitch recalls his experiences with Morrie very personal and impacted his life in a positive manner. Once it was time for Mitch to graduate, he promised his friend that they would stay in contact and continue to strengthen their relationship. Unfortunately, Mitch got caught in the trap of life and lost contact with his old professor for 16 years, until one day Mitch was flipping through channels on his T.V. and sure enough, there his old friend sat. It was on the Ted Koppel show that Morrie was talking about this disease he had encountered, ALS. An article listed by New York Times Explains, “Chances of receiving this disease is 1-1000” (Schwartz 1). This disease is very rare. Instead of acting in a way to scare the audience of this disease, Morrie uses this experience to teach others to view life in a different manner. Mitch eventually came in contact with Morrie and they communicated every Tuesday until the day Morrie died, and each day Mitch grew as a person, changed his perspective on life, and benefited from Morrie’s life lessons. In the story “Tuesdays With Morrie” Mitch Albom uses flashbacks and Imagery to Illustrate that life shouldn’t be put to waste, but lived to the fullest.

What would you do if you had to pick a certain amount of people in a group to come with you to an important event? This is what Mrs. Olinski had to do in E.L. Konigsburg’s book The View from Saturday. It would have been unquestionably difficult for a single person to choose a group of people to an important event , consequently, It would take that person an extensive amount of thinking and time to figure out the most appropriate people to come with you.